23-761. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. ' Affected group' means two or more employees designated by the employer to participate in a shared work plan. 2. ' Approved shared work plan' or ' approved plan' means an employer's shared work plan which meets the requirements of section 23-762 and which the department approves in writing. 3. ' Normal weekly hours of work' means the number of hours in a week that the employee normally would work for the shared work employer or forty hours, whichever is less. 4. ' Shared work benefits' means benefits, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 United States Code, chapter 85, payable to an individual under this article for weeks of reduced work under an approved shared work plan. 5. ' Shared work employer' means an employer with a shared work plan in effect. An individual who or an employing unit which succeeds to or acquires, pursuant to section 23-733, an organization, trade or business with a shared work plan in effect automatically becomes a shared work employer and adopts such plan, if such individual or employing unit certifies to shared work , an organization, trade or business with a shared work plan in effect automatically becomes a shared work employer and adopts such plan, if such individual or employing unit certifies to shared work benefits under the previously approved plan. 6. ' Shared work plan' or ' plan' means an employer's voluntary written plan for reducing unemployment under which a specified group of employees shares the work remaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced.
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